MetaFilter posts tagged with theshining

Heeeeeeeeere's Jacey

mannequito — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:12:04 -0800

Jace Clayton, better known as DJ /Rupture (previously on mefi), interviewed last month for the avclub. He discusses his use of Colombian cumbia music, collaborating with Dutch guitarist Andy Moor of The Ex, and a concept record with his Spanish electro-string quartet Nettle. The concept? Stephen King's The Shining transported to an abandoned luxury hotel in Dubai.

Its greatest tools and tests remain hidden from a vast majority of viewers and await discovery.

jchgf — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:50:00 -0800

"Shown backwards it is a heroic film about human experience: A man trapped in the logic of ghosts, trapped in a grayscale 2-D flat world, a photograph inside history, frozen in spectral finity: is unfrozen, and is lured outside of a maze where both his wife and son proceed to ‘undouble’ him and assist him in his war with his self and is finally able to drive away from the Overlook, from the lunarscape of this unreal summit and into a perfect mirror, earthmade."

An excerpt of a large-scale guide to the inner workings of The Shining. Related: Rob Ager's analysis and audio-visual commentary (YT) (part 2, part 3).

All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy

kirkaracha — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:50:19 -0800

All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy, a novel by Jack Torrance. [more info; via] From a review:

Some will dismiss it as simplistic; that’s like dismissing a Pollack canvas as mere splatters of paint...One is forced to consider the author, heroically pitting himself against the Sisyphusean sentence. It’s that metatextual struggle of Man vs. Typewriter that gives this book its spellbinding power...It surpasses post-modernism. I can only refer to it as “most-modernism.”

The Method is for wimps

fearfulsymmetry — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:12:50 -0800

The return of BIG acting. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood Some past masters of the art from the article: Jack Nicholson in Batman and The Shining Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant Al Pacino in Scarface Peter Finch in Network and of course Day-Lewis himself in Gangs of New York (Several of those NSFW)

I quit using my script. I just take the ones they type up each day.

acro — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:10:09 -0800

Anything you do as many times as a successful actor, you can't have one set of theories, you know. You can go for years saying “I'm gonna get this thing real”, because they really haven't seen it real, do you know? They just keep seeing one fashion of unreal after the other that passes as real and you, you know, you go mad with realism and then you come up against someone like Stanley who says, “Yeah, it’s real but it’s not interesting.”

Trapped in a hotel he never made...

keswick — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:27:01 -0800

Coming soon to a theater near you. If The Shining were made today. [via waxy]

Shine a little light

growabrain — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:58:42 -0800

How do you say “Give me the bat, Wendy” in Italian?